Bringing Live Animals to Your School or Group!

Our live animal programs are great for homeschool co-ops, youth groups, preschools, and your classroom! For specific programs, choose from our selection of program topics below or contact us for a program personalized to fit your lesson plans.

What are the benefits of our programs?

  • A lot of fun for all ages

  • Affordable alternative to an offsite visit

  • Learn about animals, the environment, & conservation

  • Instills a sense of responsibility & respect for life

  • Interactive experience with various animals or science activities

  • Develop connection, trust, & empathy

 

Animal Encounter Classroom Program

For groups of up to 40 participants, pricing is $175 for the first program and $100 for each additional program.

That’s as low as $4.50 per participant!

🐾 What’s Included?
We bring 7-8 live animals for an exciting 45-minute presentation, plus an optional 15-minute Q&A (if time allows). Each program is customized to align with your lesson objectives.

🖐 Interactive Experience
Most animals can be safely touched during the presentation, giving participants a truly hands-on experience! Teachers or chaperones are more than welcome to take as many pictures as they would like.

📸 Photo Opportunity!
For groups of 15 or fewer, each participant can hold an animal ambassador for pictures at no extra cost! (ages 5+)

For larger groups, it's an optional $4 per participant to hold an animal ambassador for pictures (ages 5+).

*Pictures are to be taken by an adult from your group

Day or Half Day Rates

Have a large group and want it to be a little more personal and hands-on than a large assembly? You can split the groups into smaller time increments to make sure everyone gets attention from me & the animals. Great for field days too!

Half-day (3 hours) program: $375 
Full-day (6 hours) program:  $675

*Assemblies are by request. Please email me at natureonthegeaux@gmail.com for a quote!

 

Programs to choose from

  • Curriculum Specific: We can do programs on the food chain, adaptations, classification, ecosystems, life cycles, conservation, endangered species, caring for exotics, or native vs. invasive species. If you don’t see your topic listed, just ask. I’ve been doing this for a while and probably have a lesson plan for what you are looking for!

  • Amazing Axolotls - Are your learners wild about axolotls? Here is their chance to meet a couple of axolotl animal ambassadors that are in my collection! We will discuss all the fun facts about them and their wild counterparts, the perils they face, how to be a keeper to an axolotl if they want to have one as a pet one day, and why scientists are so interested in them. We will also make an axolotl necklace with a cute charm for your learners to take home! Axolotls are not touchable & must be inside.

  • Animals Around the World: This program brings animals from all over the world for a fun, educational, and interactive presentation! This gives an overview of our animal ambassadors we have brought and an intro to their natural environment. 

  • Fact or Fiction? The Animal Investigation Challenge!: Can hedgehogs shoot their spines? Will cockroaches survive without their heads? Welcome to the ultimate animal myth-busting challenge! In this interactive, game-style program, learners will put their knowledge to the test with True or False trivia, uncovering surprising facts and busting common animal myths!

  • For Goodness Snakes: Some people fear snakes, but we often fear what we do not understand. Snakes look and move very differently from many other animals, but anything that is different can be amazing too. Learn how snakes act as important predators and help people in many ways we may not realize. What should you do if you see a snake? Come find out and meet some very sssssspecial ambassadors.

  • Wetland Detectives: Learn the importance of the wetlands to wildlife and all about what the wetlands provide for us. Students will be exploring biofacts, meeting a few native reptiles, and make a necklace that represents what wetlands are! (recommended for 4th - 12th grade) *not for assemblies

  • Wild Habitats: Discover the incredible adaptations of animals from deserts, forests, wetlands, and more in this hands-on wildlife education program! Meet live animal ambassadors while learning how they survive in their unique habitats and why protecting these ecosystems is so important.

  • Dig Into the Past - Learners will view fossils from all over the world & meet a few animals with prehistoric traits. They will learn about the geological time scale, the different methods of fossilization, the major fossil types, how the environment and other elements help fossils to form, and “dig” in my fossil sandbox for one fossil to keep. (recommended for Grades 3-12) *not for assemblies

  • Hop, Slither, Crawl: Young learners will look at the different ways animals move…some can walk on four legs, six legs, eight legs or no legs at all. After meeting the animal ambassadors, we’ll try our best to move like animals too! (Pre-K)

  • Animal Storytime: Listen to a story and meet the animal featured in the story plus a few of their friends! We have a selection of books the teacher picks from before the visit. This is a great way to gently introduce young learners to animals. (Pre-K)

  • Daycare General Visit: Have me out for 60 minutes and divide my time between your age groups.

Helpful things for Visits:

  • A secured, easy access loading area (ie. no learners in the area).

  • A 6ft long table.

  • If presentation is to be outside, please provide shade and inform us ahead of time. If it is under 65 degrees or over 95 degrees, we would need to be inside.

  • A 10ft buffer zone between animals and learners.

Travel Fees:

No Travel Fee: St. Tammany, Orleans, Upper Jefferson, Tangipahoa, St. Bernard; and MS counties: Harrison, Pearl River, Hancock.

$25 travel fee for the following parishes/counties: Upper Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, Livingston, Washington, Stone, Lamar, & Jackson County

$30 travel fee for: Ascension, East Baton Rouge parishes

Travel fees are paid in addition to program fees and are to offset additional vehicle costs.

Questions or ready to book? Contact Tanee at natureonthegeaux@gmail.com